Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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The total number of appointments to my Department from open recruitment since March 2011 are detailed below. Some appointments in 2011 occurred before the establishment of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Title	2011	2012	2013	2014	Grand Total
Secretary General	1	1		1	3
Assistant Secretary	1	1		1	3
Chief Economist			1		1
Chief Finance & Operations Officer			1		1
Principal		1			1
HR Manager	1				1
Assistant Principal			1	1	2
Economist			1	1	2
Banking Analyst			1		1
Business Intelligence Analyst	1				1
Credit Analyst		1			1
Compliance Officer			1		1
Administrative Officer		43	1	13	57
Executive Officer			1	1	2
Clerical Officer		8	1	1	10
Service Officer		1			1
Grand Total	4	56	9	19	88

I am advised by the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General that there were 29 new appointments made during the period 1 March 2011 to 12 September 2014. These are outlined in the table below.

Grade	No.
Assistant Secretary/Director of Audit	1

Grade	No.
Assistant Principal Officer/Senior Auditor	2
Trainee Auditor (nearest CS grade - Executive Officer)	26

I understand that the Deputy is referring to open recruitment to the civil service, and in that regard, I am advised by the Revenue Commissioners that during the period 1 March 2011 to 12 September 2014 a total of 178 new appointments were made to Revenue following open competition The appointments were made under sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and within Revenue's Employment Control Framework and Budget.  They are additional to reassignments following redeployment and internal promotion competitions.  For completeness, the Deputy may wish no note that approximately 40% of the successful candidates were already Revenue Commissioner's staff.  The appointments were required to fill critical posts in a number of areas including audit, investigation, compliance and information technology.The table below provides the grade breakdown:

Table 1: Recruitment 1/3/2011 to 12/09/2014

Grade	2011	2012	2013	2014	Total
Revenue Commissioners (Secretary General level)*	0	1	0	0	1
Assistant Secretary*	2	2	0	1	5
Principal	1	1	1	1	4
Assistant Principal	0	5	12	10	27
Solicitor	0	2	0	0	2
Economist	1	0	0	0	1
Administrative Officer	0	20	47	39	106
Clerical Officer	0	1	0	31	32
Total	4	32	60	82	178

*Following Top Level Appointments Committee open competitions

The NTMA were unable to provide the details required at this time and will reply directly to the Deputy.

Please note that the list of offices and bodies under the aegis of my Department are currently being reviewed.